#1 Introduction +
Where is the digital revolution?
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Lucerne
22 February 2024
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What makes a computer looking intelligent?
AI is a moving target with respect to …
An image segmentation by Facebook’s Detectron2(Wu et al. 2019)
Recognizing speech robustly (e.g. language, accent, noise)
stunning transcriptions by Whisper(Radford et al. 2022)
transcription demo for Swiss German (Plüss et al. 2021)
Synthesizing generic or personal voice
translation demo by SeamlessM4T v2 (Duquenne et al. 2023)
samples of voice cloning by VALL-E (Wang et al. 2023)
is a brand, large-language models (LLM) is the technology
generates fluent text, not necessarily truthful
is highly useful, although it understands little
is English-focused, multilinguality is limited
generates non-reproducible outputs
generated text cannot be detected (except verbatim parts)
yesterday’s version might be different than today’s
ChatGPT challenges search engines
Smart assistance rather than search only